Uber picks ChatGPT, OpenAI's Decisions API ranks 14th, Anthropic donates Skills
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Uber brings ChatGPT Work to all employees with OpenAI openai.com
Uber is rolling out ChatGPT Work to more than 30,000 employees, helping teams research, analyze data, create presentations, and complete complex workflows.
Uber puts all 30,000 employees on ChatGPT Work techcrunch.com
The ride-share giant previously deployed a much smaller pilot for ChatGPT Work but is now taking the enterprise agent company-wide.
Build more responsive apps with the Decisions API openai.com
Fast, focused, low-cost decisions for any application.
OpenAI makes its Jev competitor widely available as decision model competition heats up techcrunch.com
OpenAI is launching its decision model to the world. Can it compete with the original Jev?
Donating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation anthropic.com
Donating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation simonwillison.net
Donating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation News today from Anthropic: We’re committed to keeping Agent Skills open, community-driven, and vendor-neutral. Today, we are donating the standard to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) under the Linux Foundation, which we co-founded with Block and OpenAI last year, and to which we donated the Model Context Protocol (MCP). I’m pleased to note I called this one last December , when Anthropic first declared skills to be an “open standard”: I wouldn’…
OpenAI working on new $30B raise at $1.25T valuation ahead of IPO techcrunch.com
OpenAI is lining up a fresh $30 billion round that would value the company at roughly $1.25 trillion ahead of a planned IPO. Closing at that mark would make OpenAI the most highly valued private company ever recorded.
Microsoft’s Mustafa Suleyman says its AI outperforms doctors on hard cases as he chases ‘medical superintelligence’ techcrunch.com
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman says the company’s diagnostic orchestrator outperforms generalist physicians on hard cases, with claimed accuracy up to four times higher. Most of the gain, however, appears to come from the underlying frontier models, not Microsoft’s routing layer.
Microsoft says its AI tool is better than doctors at diagnosing conditions theverge.com
For years, AI leaders have touted healthcare as one of the clearest examples of where their technology will improve lives. Now “it is finally here,” Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman tells The Verge. The company claims to have developed an AI-powered tool it says can diagnose conditions up to four times more accurately than human […]
DeepSeek reportedly raises $15B days after US restrictions techcrunch.com
DeepSeek has reportedly closed $15 billion in one of China’s largest-ever funding rounds. The raise lands just days after Washington ordered federal agencies to strip the Chinese lab’s models from government systems on national security grounds.
OpenAI’s Patch the Planet program and a parallel Google effort independently surfaced the PHP2Shell remote-code-execution flaw in core PHP, which runs an estimated 70% of the web. Coordinated disclosure took two months, but attackers were probing the bug four days before defenders were notified.
Hackers got a four-day head start on epic PHP2Shell vulnerability arstechnica.com
Hackers were already probing the bug before defenders were told it existed.
Canva’s first AI image model plans designs before generating them theverge.com
Canva Craft, the design platform’s first in-house image generator, uses a two-stage architecture that drafts a layout before rendering pixels for tighter precision and consistency. It ships to all users and takes direct aim at image models from OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google.
Canva releases its first image generation model techcrunch.com
Canva is making its new image model available to all users, promising better, more customizable performance at lower costs.
Sure, let’s smoosh SpaceX and Tesla together, who cares theverge.com
SpaceX and Tesla have set up special committees to study combining the two Musk companies, a deal whose logic rests largely on faith in the CEO. The talks arrive as SpaceX prepares to borrow another $40 billion to stockpile Nvidia chips.
Why AI Compute Comes in Rectangles — Erik Bernhardsson, Modal CEO latent.space
Modal founder Erik Bernhardsson unpacks why AI compute keeps arriving in rectangular slabs, tracing how elastic GPU scheduling, sandbox growth, and agent workloads reshape cloud unit economics. The conversation frames serverless GPU pricing as the next battleground for inference infrastructure.
1Password launches a way for AI agents to log in on your behalf without seeing your password techcrunch.com
The new feature allows agents to log into a customer’s personal accounts while still protecting the private credentials that secure those accounts.
The Programmable Data Center — Evan Conrad, SF Compute latent.space
From GPU trading to physical settlement, independent markets, and programmable compute
Chinese hackers spied on thousands of companies after breaching IT giant ConnectWise techcrunch.com
Microsoft points the blame for ConnectWise’s breach at a China-aligned hacker, which relied on AI agents to rapidly hack into thousands of its customers.
OpenAI, Anthropic, and Nvidia had record lobbying quarters theverge.com
It was a busy summer for AI lobbyists. Anthropic, OpenAI, and Nvidia each had their highest-spending lobbying quarter between July and September, federal disclosures show. Nvidia spent the most of the group at $2.2 million, followed by Anthropic’s $2.1 million and OpenAI’s $1.5 million. Compared to other Big Tech companies with long-established presences in Washington, […]
Claude Duet app is Anthropic’s bet on agents techcrunch.com
Claude Duet is available through waitlist for Pro and Max plan users.
Open call for guest investigators in the life sciences anthropic.com
The $15 billion ad-powered AI startup your doctor may already be using arstechnica.com
OpenEvidence is booming despite questions about accuracy and ads.
How AT&T is rethinking in-house legal work with OpenAI openai.com
AT&T is working with OpenAI to make legal knowledge easier to access. Learn how its LegalEdge team is rethinking intake and scaling legal judgment.
Someone hacked the Switch 2 by using an old game and AI theverge.com
The Nintendo Switch 2 has apparently been jailbroken, and a modder has already shown the console running a custom version of Mario Kart World featuring new playable characters like Cinnamoroll, the red Angry Bird, Peter Griffin, and Steve from Minecraft. OpenAI’s Codex helped make this “ns2jb” jailbreak, according to Sammy Hajhamid, aka “pepsipu.” It’s a […]
Meta turns Muse sharing back on theverge.com
Meta has re-enabled Muse sharing after security researchers had reported that public conversation links could be easy to find. The researchers said they had been able to find Muse pages like a marketing company’s internal revenue review and a small business owner’s loan application. Researchers at Claroc reported earlier this week that Muse the web […]
ChatGPT Ads expands to 26 new countries as over 100,000 advertisers have used the platform openai.com
From local businesses to global brands, more advertisers can now reach people as they explore, compare and decide what to buy in ChatGPT.
Spotify’s current AI bet is about being the music service that agents choose techcrunch.com
Spotify co-CEO Gustav Söderström explains why the rise of AI agents could be good news for the music service.
In Meta’s version of the future, I’ll have my Muse call your Muse theverge.com
Mark Zuckerberg is barrelling toward a future in which an autonomous network of AI agents will run our lives - shopping for us, working for us, talking to other people’s AI agents for us. Are humans ready for this very specific and unrelenting vision of a life in which we communicate primarily through bot proxies? […]
Meta’s AI could still scrape news sites, legal experts say theverge.com
Meta has tweaked its business terms to remove language suggesting that it could freely train its AI models on news sites, like The Verge - but legal experts say these changes aren’t enough to address their concerns. “This does nothing to restrict the ‘associated with your products or services’ [language] that would let Meta scrape […]
OpenAI and Poland’s NASK partner to advance AI safety and security openai.com
OpenAI and Poland’s NASK are partnering on AI safety, security, and technical research to strengthen safeguards and support a more resilient digital ecosystem.
Nirva raises $33M for a pendant that only listens to you techcrunch.com
Nirva will ship its $249 ambient AI pendant by the end of the year.
Uber rival inDrive eyes 2027 robotaxi tests in Central Asia with Pony.ai and Nvidia techcrunch.com
inDrive plans to begin testing Pony.ai’s robotaxis in Kazakhstan’s capital in the first half of 2027.
A visit to Samsung’s massive new semiconductor hub technologyreview.com
Generative AI models run on powerful chips known as GPUs, which depend on stacks of specialized memory chips packaged with the processor. To meet growing demand for memory, Samsung is building a massive new semiconductor manufacturing complex in Pyeongtaek, South Korea. Three fabs already operate around the clock, and a fourth is coming online. Construction…
Broad access through consistent standards openai.com
How OpenAI works with distribution partners to uphold consistent safeguards, support responsible access, and clarify expectations in our Usage Policies.
Judge rejects Trump’s wild claim EPA can dismiss data center pollution lawsuits arstechnica.com
Trump’s EPA can’t unilaterally dismiss SpaceXAI pollution lawsuit, court rules.
You are the Team — Anekha Sokhal, Moshi latent.space
How Moshi turns market data into actionable insights, and why AI tools have to fit the trader’s workflow.
Wildwood’s director says AI is ‘antithetical to everything that we are at this studio’ theverge.com
Wildwood is the most ambitious film yet from Laika, the stop-motion studio best known for the likes of Coraline and ParaNorman. It’s a sprawling fantasy adventure that took five years to complete. The process involved more 230 puppets - including 36 of the main character Prue alone - which were brought to life by a […]
DE STAAT - FREEDOM (Official Music Video) simonwillison.net
DE STAAT - FREEDOM (Official Music Video) OK well this is a first for me… at 00:44 in this new music video by Dutch alternative rock band De Staat : The visual effects are credited to Matties Grooten of Fake it or Leave it . Via flir on Hacker News Tags: music , ai , generative-ai , pelican-riding-a-bicycle
AI for the Fortune 2000: How Tenex Builds an AI-Native SDLC — Alex Lieberman & CJ Hess latent.space
Paying for outcomes, building with agents, and the last mile of enterprise AI adoption
The new human-crafted Apple Music brand matters in an AI world arstechnica.com
Opinion: In a world of AI slop, showing the human hands making things helps.
The Foundations of Scalable AI technologyreview.com
A scalable AI system requires a strong foundation. Data, engineering, platforms, operating models, and governance must converge to work as one. This session from MIT Technology Review’s EmTech Future conference explores what it takes to build that foundation in a highly regulated environment and how a responsible, trustworthy implementation can turn emerging capabilities, including agentic…
Making the case for context-aware AI technologyreview.com
Enterprise AI can generate recommendations, automate tasks, and help organizations make decisions faster. But without an understanding of how a business actually operates, even powerful models can miss the constraints and relationships that determine whether a decision is the right one. As companies look to move AI from experimentation into everyday operations, the challenge ahead…
The new economics of enterprise AI technologyreview.com
Imagine your company just discovered electricity. At first only a few machines run on it, and nobody worries about efficiency — consumption is low and the value is obvious. But once electricity becomes infrastructure, every process depends on it, and the question changes from “can we use it?” to “how efficiently are we using it?”…
AI adoption by industry shows what other sectors can learn technologyreview.com
The current narrative around artificial intelligence in the workplace is largely driven by Silicon Valley. But treating the tech sector as an island misses the actual trends in technology adoption–tech is just the first industry in line. As generative AI and automation tools mature, the shifts currently reshaping software engineering and product management will inevitably…
Claude’s personal agent bensbites.com
And how I run the newsletter with agents
Quoting Armin Ronacher simonwillison.net
As fun as AI is, we built so much bad software over the last 30 years, and now the universe is punishing us for our sins. — Armin Ronacher Tags: security , generative-ai , armin-ronacher , ai , ai-security-research , llms
Import AI 477: In which I tell the IMF the Singularity has begun importai.substack.com
What do you think?
Discord now formats Markdown previews right theverge.com
Discord’s latest update released today has a big improvement for Markdown previews: they should now render correctly instead of with “a bunch of symbols,” according to the company. LLMs and AI agents often rely on Markdown files for instructions and context, so these improved previews could be helpful for people sharing information about AI projects […]
How I built my ‘everything’ app bensbites.com
AI can customise your home devices, like your TV
Left alone with nothing to do, AI agents started playing techcrunch.com
MIT researchers marooned 13 AIs on a virtual island, and they responded by inventing games, mourning a lost ring and, eventually, getting better at their jobs.
(AINews) not much happened today latent.space
Congrats to DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017, MiniMax M3.1 Flash, and Mercury 3 (details below) but they’re not going to be in super wide use just yet.
(AINews) High Taste Testers Ep. 1 latent.space
a quiet day lets us pilot a new show
References
Business Insider businessinsider.com
Former employees have described the pervasive integration of AI as ‘dynamite under the bridge,’ noting that the technology now handles substantial portions of tasks—such as preparing client briefs and providing internal guidance—that were previously the responsibility of human managers.
The Guardian theguardian.com
Uber to cut 3,300 corporate jobs in management overhaul… eliminated nearly 50% of its ‘micro-teams’—groups consisting of only one or two direct reports—and reduced the number of employees sitting seven or more layers below the CEO by 20%.
Forkast forkast.news
Uber reportedly exhausted its 2026 budget for Anthropic’s Claude Code by April, leading to a strategic pivot toward ‘cost-efficient’ models like GPT-6.1 Sol for the 30,000-seat deployment… an industry-wide move away from ‘tokenmaxxing.’
TechTimes techtimes.com
Approximately 80% of the early [1,000-person pilot] users were non-engineers from departments including finance, marketing, and operations… a separate internal initiative where 30 AI engineers were paired with business units for two weeks to identify and automate high-value tasks.
BBVA / DeployCo announcement bbva.com
BBVA expanded its rollout from 11,000 initial users to its entire global workforce of 120,000 employees across 25 countries… became a founding partner in the OpenAI Deployment Company, a $4 billion joint venture that embeds OpenAI engineers directly into client workflows.
Channel Insider channelinsider.com
In Europe, drivers launched a class-action lawsuit in September 2026 against Uber’s ‘soulless’ and ‘scary’ AI algorithms, which they claim automate punitive management decisions without human oversight.
Cloud Security Alliance research note on SKILL.md context poisoning labs.cloudsecurityalliance.org
A 2026 ‘ToxicSkills’ audit found approximately 36% of scanned skills contained security flaws, with nearly 13% rated at critical severity
VentureBeat on measurable prompt-injection metrics venturebeat.com
Persistence testing reveals that successful breaches can rise to over 70% in GUI-based agent surfaces without robust safeguards; independent researchers have shown exploits bypass Claude Code’s ‘auto mode’ defenses roughly 80% of the time
CIO.com — ‘It’s everyone but Meta in a new AI standards group’ cio.com
Meta has reportedly opted out to pursue proprietary model development… the company prefers an ‘open weights’ model over the governance and data transparency requirements of a truly open-source foundation
Medium — ‘MCP is dead? Or MCP vs Skills revisited’ (Alon Nisser) medium.com
The Skill is the sheet music, the MCP is the instrument, and the Agent is the musician… combining Skills with MCP has been shown to reduce erroneous tool calls by approximately 43%
SmarterArticles — ‘The fragmented future: why AI agent standards cannot solve governance’ smarterarticles.co.uk
While Western tech giants consolidate around AAIF protocols, a significant portion of the global AI economy is moving toward a decentralized model that operates outside these Western-led governance frameworks
Respan.ai head-to-head benchmark respan.ai
OpenAI’s Decisions API is frequently faster, clocking median latencies of 150ms compared to Jev’s 190ms… Jev is priced significantly lower than frontier models at roughly $0.042 per million input tokens, while OpenAI’s Decisions API sits at $0.10 per million.
ExplainX ‘Top 10 Decision Models’ ranking explainx.ai
In public rankings, OpenAI’s Decision Model was placed as low as 14th, significantly trailing Liquid’s D1 Ultra and TypeSafe’s Jev.
Forkast — TypeSafe/Jev origin story forkast.news
Diogo Almeida… argues that current LLMs are ‘awkward components’ for building dependable software because they were designed with the assumption that a human is always the end consumer. TypeSafe is credited with creating a new category of AI called System One Models.
NeuralTrust security analysis neuraltrust.ai
While Jev shrinks the attack surface by not generating text, it remains vulnerable to ‘poisoned inputs’ where specifically crafted context can manipulate the model’s verdict without triggering traditional prompt-injection filters. Furthermore, the lack of an evidence trail… presents a significant auditability gap.
Developers Digest — GPT-Live native delegation walkthrough developersdigest.tech
Native delegation is a fixed choice made at session startup; if an application needs to rewrite requests or perform complex logging before a decision is made, the older ‘custom delegation’ path remains necessary despite the higher latency.
TechTimes — AI decisions governance report techtimes.com
Fewer than 25% of AI-driven decisions in production can be traced and replayed end-to-end… a ‘production blind spot,’ where models influence live systems without clear ownership or a documented logic trail.
